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Transformers have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning visual representations. In this paper, we identify and characterize artifacts in feature maps of both supervised and self-supervised ViT networks. The artifacts correspond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Timothée Darcet , Maxime Oquab , Julien Mairal , Piotr Bojanowski

The relations expressed in user queries are vital for cross-modal information retrieval. Relation-focused cross-modal retrieval aims to retrieve information that corresponds to these relations, enabling effective retrieval across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yan Gong , Georgina Cosma , Axel Finke

Although researchers' attention is more focused on the performance of Transformer models, the interpretation of Transformer can never be ignored. Gradient is widely utilized in Transformer interpretation. From the perspective of attention…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yongjin Cui , Xiaohui Fan , Huajun Chen

Transformer is a new kind of neural architecture which encodes the input data as powerful features via the attention mechanism. Basically, the visual transformers first divide the input images into several local patches and then calculate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Kai Han , An Xiao , Enhua Wu , Jianyuan Guo , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models (T2I) use a latent representation of a text prompt to guide the image generation process. However, the process by which the encoder produces the text representation is unknown. We propose the Diffusion Lens, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Michael Toker , Hadas Orgad , Mor Ventura , Dana Arad , Yonatan Belinkov

Explainable machine learning significantly improves the transparency of deep neural networks. However, existing work is constrained to explaining the behavior of individual model predictions, and lacks the ability to transfer the…

The Vision Transformer (ViT) leverages the Transformer's encoder to capture global information by dividing images into patches and achieves superior performance across various computer vision tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Tianxiao Zhang , Wenju Xu , Bo Luo , Guanghui Wang

Background and Objective: Prototype-based methods improve interpretability by learning fine-grained part-prototypes; however, their visualization in the input pixel space is not always consistent with human-understandable biomarkers. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Marzieh Oghbaie , Teresa Araújo , Hrvoje Bogunović

Vision Transformer (ViT) has brought new breakthroughs to the field of image classification by introducing the self-attention mechanism and Graph Convolutional Networks(GCN) have been proposed and successfully applied in data representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haibin Jiao

Vision-Language Transformers can be learned without low-level human labels (e.g. class labels, bounding boxes, etc). Existing work, whether explicitly utilizing bounding boxes or patches, assumes that the visual backbone must first be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Liangke Gui , Yingshan Chang , Qiuyuan Huang , Subhojit Som , Alex Hauptmann , Jianfeng Gao , Yonatan Bisk

In recent years, many interpretability methods have been proposed to help interpret the internal states of Transformer-models, at different levels of precision and complexity. Here, to analyze encoder-decoder Transformers, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Anna Langedijk , Hosein Mohebbi , Gabriele Sarti , Willem Zuidema , Jaap Jumelet

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on many Computer Vision Tasks. Unfortunately, deploying these large-scale ViTs is resource-consuming and impossible for many mobile devices. While most in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nahid Alam , Steven Kolawole , Simardeep Sethi , Nishant Bansali , Karina Nguyen

The paper proposes an efficient structure for enhancing the performance of mobile-friendly vision transformer with small computational overhead. The vision transformer (ViT) is very attractive in that it reaches outperforming results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Gyeongdong Yang , Yungwook Kwon , Hyunjin Kim

Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of research has adapted the pretrained transformer architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

Transformers have recently demonstrated strong performance in computer vision, with Vision Transformers (ViTs) leveraging self-attention to capture both low-level and high-level image features. However, standard ViTs remain computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ali El Bellaj , Mohammed-Amine Cheddadi , Rhassan Berber

Dynamic attention mechanism and global modeling ability make Transformer show strong feature learning ability. In recent years, Transformer has become comparable to CNNs methods in computer vision. This review mainly investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yuting Yang , Licheng Jiao , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Zhixi Feng , Xu Tang

Vision Transformers have excelled in computer vision but their attention mechanisms operate independently across layers, limiting information flow and feature learning. We propose an effective cross-layer attention propagation method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Swarnendu Banik , Manish Das , Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh

Transparency of neural networks' internal reasoning is at the heart of interpretability research, adding to trust, safety, and understanding of these models. The field of mechanistic interpretability has recently focused on studying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nina Żukowska , Wolfgang Stammer , Bernt Schiele , Jonas Fischer

Pretraining Vision Transformers (ViTs) has achieved great success in visual recognition. A following scenario is to adapt a ViT to various image and video recognition tasks. The adaptation is challenging because of heavy computation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shoufa Chen , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Jiangliu Wang , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Ping Luo

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi